Michael Havens writes: > in my research to create a bootable pendrive I found: > > sudo dd if= of=/dev/ > > my question is what do I need to add to the command to make a persistant > pendrive? > :-)~MIKE~(-: Mike, Depending on the distro you may find CLI tools designed to do that. Check this article on the Fedora Wiki. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB This also looked useful. Especially the ability to create an encrypted persistent overlay. http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/usbdisk.html dennisk -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss